I accidentally made a rom-com subplot in one of my games... Twice... And the players loved it both times.

The first time there was a divorced smith lady who sort of had a death wish, and the timid tavern owner who had a massive crush on her. Of course the players wanted to set them up.

The second time, the players had to infiltrate a masquerade ball. Sadly I'm starting to forget the details. I think there was tension around meeting them while masked and, like a rom com, trying to figure out what they thought about the PC. And then they tried to get the NPC involved in their heist, because they just happened to have a skill they needed. And of course it wasn't a clean heist, and the NPC had some trauma.

What constitutes a hobby?

I was encouraged from a young age to read books. I still do. I enjoy it. Are books a hobby?

My parents are both music fans. Had a big music collection, went to a lot of concerts. I'm the same. I enjoy it.

It's a short leap from books (eg: lotr) and some music (eg: some metal, some prog rock) to DND and similar games. It looked cool so I got into it.

Bikes are pretty ecologically friendly and the exercise is good. I've only dipped my toes into biking but it wouldn't be a big leap to buy my own bike, find s meetup, or whatever.

A friend of mine learned about weaving... somewhere. I don't know where actually. But they said "that looks cool' and looked into it. Now they weave and knit and such. Read about it online, watched some videos, signed up for a class.

A guy I know saw some photos online and went "that's cool. I could do that" and I think took a beginner class in it. Bought an entry level camera and just has fun taking pictures of stuff.

The common thread here is it's all stuff people enjoy.

Maybe delete more of your social media. That stuff is bad for you. A friend of mine started tracking how much time they spent on it, and realized it was like 4 hours a day doing nothing on Instagram. It's mostly trash. You don't need it.

Some guys at work are getting into chess. Not sure where it started but now they're playing and reading about strategy and stuff.

Don't beat yourself up over being bad at things.

My favorite is "I knew a poly couple and they broke up (but nevermind all the monogamous people who broke up)"

Monogamy vs non-monogamy is another axis of this, where people often find their unexamined assumptions challenged.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

"I will not trust any vaccine made by a capitalist" sounds like a satire of a left wing person. I can't tell if you were making a joke or really hold an absurd position.

I see poe's law is alive and well.

Most people don't know much, and don't care that they don't know much. Half of US adults can't read at a 6th grade level. They don't care about and probably do not understand complex topics.

That's it. They just want cat gifs, and that's the end of the thought.

I knew someone who was smart and successful and politically aware. She didn't care about any of this. She was tired from work and just wanted the familiar ease or twitter. Trying to figure out which server to sign up for and finding content was too much work.

A lot of people have executive dysfunction. Making a choice is hard.

Satire is dead. Unfortunately, this guy somehow survives despite his best efforts to get sick.

I switched to mint because ms won't even let me upgrade to 11 if I wanted to. Other than some initial hurdles installing it, and losing some hd space because I kept windows on the other partition, it's been fine. Proton and Wine are pretty low maintenance

I believed it was because right wing groups are more authoritarian, and thus more likely to simply fall in behind the leader. Like all the Republicans that said bad things about trump, but when it came to votes they went along with him. Personal beliefs are less important than group cohesion.

I believed left wing people are more likely to value things like truth, accuracy, fairness, over group cohesion. Thus when there's a disagreement or problematic leader, the group fractures instead of the majority going along with whoever's perceived to be the leader. Personal values are primary.

Also I guess the surface area for problems in left wing spaces is bigger. If a right wing guy makes a racist joke, the right wing probably won't care. Nor if they do something sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or whatever. They just have to swim with the current of all that bad stuff conservatives believe/accept. But a left wing person, who is just as steeped in the shitty dominant culture, will be held to a standard if they fuck up. They have to go against the current of the dominant culture. And if they fuck up and some internalized racism bubbles up, that's a whole problem in a way right wing folks don't have. They don't have internalized communism or feminism to grapple with.

I don't know if this is actually true, though.

Sorry for the kind of stream of consciousness post, heh. Think I'm mostly following what you're saying

It's federated with my lemmy instance. I neither seek it out nor avoid it.

I'm waiting for it to go on sale/get an ultimate edition*, but my understanding is a lot of turds don't like it for usual turd reasons.

It's probably for the better there's no reverse review bombing that happens. But it's the usual thing: hateful people are focused and dedicated, everyone else is not so much.

*Though I did read no dlc/expansions are planned

When I encounter a GM who has like pages of lore, I'm always like "Would you rather write a book?"

Stuff like this can be very good, but be aware there are some players who hate this. Some people just want to be told a story, and if you ask them to be too creative they'll have a bad time. Sometimes it's because they're new and nervous, but sometimes that's just how they are.

Also some players just routinely have difficult ideas that don't mesh with the group. Like everyone else is vibing on a serious dark modern day vampire political game, and they're like "I want to be a ninja turtle from Mars with a reanimated dead fish for a head". Like, what. Maybe some people enjoy "zany" off-theme stuff. Not me.

Or the player that always wants to be themselves. Or an amnesiac.

Gosh I've had so many players I didn't enjoy.

Anyway. Player input is also built nicely into Fate, both in campaign creation and scenes. I'm a fan. Spend a fate point and declare a story detail like "every Razer Space Technology office has a helipad with a chopper ready to go. It's because the CEO is weirdly hands on and loves helicopters."

I'm pretty sure monopoly was supposed to show how it's a bad system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game

Remember that jury nullification is a tool in your toolbox.

Hypothetically, if you're selected for jury duty in a case like 'Someone murdered Nick Fuentes", you can just say not guilty regardless of evidence or truth. The court can't make you show your work and they cannot tell you that your verdict is wrong This is an inherent property of jury trials. It gets used to shield cops and other in-group members from consequences.

Unless he's going to jail or similar, it doesn't matter. He got what he wanted.

Surely there's a couple people still working there.

I feel like people are just rolling over and taking it? He shouldn't even be eligible because of the 14th Amendment "no insurrection" thing.

Yes. And no one's going to do anything about it.

Most people are too lazy and thoughtless to stop using it .

The engineers that work there certainly aren't going to stage a coup.

And no one's going to just do violence to Musk.

It's also a pain for software development and related fields. Xkcd did a strip about it.